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Wed, March 29
@ 1 PM
David Vaughan's The Dance Historian Is In
This event will take place online via Zoom as well as in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register Join Arlene Yu, Director, Knowledge and Legacy at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and former Dance Division staff member, for a video journey through ballroom competition history. Sharing video clips from the 1960s to the present, Yu will discuss changes in the International Latin category over time, including technique, costume, hair and makeup, and gender pairings, t…
OnlineAdults
Thu, March 30
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. In 2022, Library of Congress Senior Specialist Mark Eden Horowitz’s edited collection of the letters of Oscar Hammerstein II quickly sold out of its first few print runs and has already begun to reshape our understanding of this remarkable playwright and lyricist. In this conversation with Billy Rose Theatre Division Curator Doug Reside, Mark will discuss the process of curating his…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, April 3
@ 6 PM
To honor Agnes de Mille on the 30th Anniversary of her passing, The De Mille Working Group will present a public program featuring live performances, panel discussion, and historical film footage. Moderated by Linda Murray, Curator for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and Interim Executive Director of the Library for the Performing Arts, the panel will focus on de Mille’s multi-faceted female characters, exploring the meaning and intent behind the choreographer’s vision. Free to the public, t…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Tue, April 4
@ 1 PM
Online
This event is online only. 53rd Street Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising **How to Register: Please click HERE** We are offering a monthly music club (1PM & 5PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Tue, April 4
@ 5 PM
Online
This event is online only. 53rd Street Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising **How to Register: Please click HERE** We are offering a monthly music club (1PM & 5PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Sat, April 8
@ 2:30 PM
Silent Clowns Film Series
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. The Silent Clowns Film Series is New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase. Our programming reaches the serious film buff by including rarely-screened titles and rare prints, yet it also introduces kids and new audiences to the classics of the silent screen. Screenings feature live piano accompaniment by MoMA’s Ben Model, with an introduction and Q&A…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, April 10
@ 5:30 PM
This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. REGISTER This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. Dantza is a dance film like no other: it is “a stunning achievement in dance, color, and photography,” Film Threat wrote. This screening will be the first public screening of it in the US since its 2018 release. Using the language of Basque dance, as wielded by the imagination of a folklorist-choreographer, a sculptor of specta…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, April 13
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register In 2013, Terence Blanchard premiered Champion, an opera, with libretto by Michael Cristofer, based on the life of Black boxer Emile Griffith. For the first time, the opera will be performed in New York at the Metropolitan Opera starting April 10. In celebration of this New York premiere, the Library for the Performing Arts hosts a discussion about the opera, Emile Griffith, and Blanchard's work. Blanc…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Sat, April 15
@ 1 PM
Dive deeper into the life and legacy of the renowned Iowan in the Iowa PBS documentary, Meredith Willson: America’s Music Man, the composer, arranger, bandleader, and playwright behind The Music Man. He performed under Sousa and Toscanini. He scored films for the likes of Chaplin and wrote popular songs performed by Sinatra and The Beatles. And when the River City boys band marched on Broadway, Meredith Willson caught the whole world’s ear. Meredith Willson: America’s Music Man premiered in Feb…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Mon, April 17
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. REGISTER Bobbi Owen, the curator behind The Wondrous Willa Kim exhibition at the Library for the Performing Arts, presents a close examination of Willa Kim’s costumes in motion. See Kim’s innovative designs made in New York, captured in performance footage from works preserved in the Library’s theatre and dance moving image archives. Owen will be joined by special guests from Kim’s life and career. In The Won…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, April 20
@ 10:30 AM
16mm Film
​ Kids of all ages are welcome to join us for a morning of classic children’s films. Short works to support reading and counting will be shown in the cafe at the Library for the Performing Arts on our 16mm film projector. If your little one wants to explore machines, dinosaurs, music and reading, this monthly film series is for them! Photo caption/credit: Film still from The Shout it Out Alphabet Film by Lynn Smith Upcoming Date: May 11 ​
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Café
Children,

Toddlers (18-36 months),

Pre-schoolers (3-5 years),

School Age (5-12 years)
Thu, April 20
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. Register An American Ballet Story (documentary, 94 minutes, 2022). Seven years in the making! Screening will be followed by a Q & A with moderator Walter Rutledge of Out & About NYC Magazine and the producers of the film. 1964 – A time of major shifts in civil rights, women’s and gay rights. New York City was alive – you could feel it on the streets. The Joffrey Ballet splits in two over a struggle for a…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, April 26
@ 1 PM
David Vaughan's The Dance Historian Is In
This event will take place online via Zoom as well as in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register This event will take place online via Zoom as well as in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Dancer Joan Miller was known as a no-nonsense bundle of intellect, creativity, and humor. Beginning at Juilliard, Miller went on to dance with the José Limón and Anna Sokolow dance companies. She became the Lehman College’s dance director for 30 years, and premiered her si…
OnlineAdults
Thu, April 27
@ 5:30 PM
16mm Film
In recognition of Earth Day, we will screen Anne Belle’s 1976 film Baymen—Our Waters are Dying, which addressed the threat of water pollution to the clam diggers of eastern Long Island, and discuss with marine biologist Kate Rossi-Snook whether conservation efforts implemented since the film’s production have been successful. Kate is the founder of Shelter Island Sustainable Targeted Aquaculture and the Aquaculture Coordinator at Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program's Back to the Bays in…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, April 27
@ 6 PM
REGISTER An all-star panel of participants from the house music scene convene to discuss and share their experiences with the history of underground house music starting in the late 1970s to today. Some of the top DJs, promoters, and producers that have been part of the scene join us for an all-star panel of participants from the scene. Video footage of New York City underground and house music venues will be interspersed with presentations and audience discussion. The panel, moderated by ho…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, LPA CafeAdults
Sat, April 29
@ 11 AM
REGISTER The Beethoven-a-thon features a series of performances of Beethoven's string quartets performed by Juilliard students. In this year's concert, we hear from selections from Opus 18, Opus 59, Opus 96, and Opus 132. The performance is the culminating work of nine first-year quartets that are taking Juilliard's String Quartet Survey class. The concert will be in three sections, starting at 11:00am, 1:00pm, and 3:00pm. Audience will be admitted between the sections. Once s…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Library for the Performing Arts - Bruno Walter Auditorium
Adults
Mon, May 1
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register The Library’s inaugural Theatre and Technology Fellow, Kyueun Kim, will discuss her project to document the oral histories of those who performed in the metaverse during the Covid-19 pandemic using the very virtual reality technologies that served as the platform for the original works. In 2022, the Library for the Performing Arts welcomed Kyueun Kim as the inaugural Theatre and Technology Fellow. In t…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Tue, May 2
@ 7 PM
Author Talks
The New York Public Library and 53rd Street Library presents NYPL 33 1/3 , an online partnership with the Library for the Performing Arts featuring 33 1/3, a series of short books about music albums. This is an online program. Join Kimberly Mack as she explores the creation and reception of Time's Up by the iconic Black rock band Living Colour. Released in 1990, the album was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time's Up is a…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers,

College & Graduate Students,

Teachers,

College/Graduate School Educators
Wed, May 3
@ 6:30 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register In this special participatory performance, disability culture activist Petra Kuppers and her guests invite audiences to search for disabled and mad dancers in the archive. The event will take place within the stacks of the Library for the Performing Arts, using movement, storytelling and divinatory methods to explore connections to disabled dance ancestors. Gestural memories ground the experience in old…
Dance Division - 2nd Floor Reading Room StacksAdults
Thu, May 4
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register Petra Kuppers’ 2022 book Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters is a “poetic field guide to witnessing community performance, offering a substantive revision of arts-based methods” (Lori M. Esposito). Join Petra for a talk in which she trains a disability culture lens onto contemporary performance, investigating co-experienced embodiment in unequally distributed power fields. Eco So…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, May 8
@ 6 PM
REGISTER The culmination of an intense semester of research and creative experimentation, New School University students, led by acclaimed saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom, present new music and theater works inspired by and incorporating the Library’s archives. The concert will be followed by a Q & A with the five composers to discuss their process from research to performance. For this performance, we hear from Hans Young Binter, Nathan Chamberlain, Ethan Cohn, We…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, May 11
@ 10:30 AM
16mm Film
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Kids of all ages are welcome to join us for a morning of classic children’s films. This month's program is all about dance! Short works will be shown in the cafe at the Library for the Performing Arts on our 16mm film projector, with a movement exercise to follow. If your little one wants to explore machines, dinosaurs, music and reading, this monthly film series is for them! Image credit: Film still from Hen Hop by…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Café
Children,

Toddlers (18-36 months),

Pre-schoolers (3-5 years),

School Age (5-12 years)
Thu, May 11
@ 2 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. While tickets to all events at the Library for the Performing Arts are free, seating is granted upon general admission. There will be no registration for the 2pm performance of the event and entrance will be based on a first come, first serve basis. This show will be performed at both 2pm and 6pm on Thursday, May 11th. ( 6PM Performance Page ) The heartwarming new musical Tomorrow tells the story of an exhaust…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, May 11
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. This event is currently sold out online, but tickets may be available day-of through a standby line. The heartwarming new musical Tomorrow tells the story of an exhausted American actress struggling to find self-worth. Lost on the streets of London, she ventures into an unusual fog and stumbles upon several strangers who challenge her sense of purpose, success, and connection. The creators won an award from the…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Fri, May 12
@ 7 PM
REGISTER The Jerome Robbins Dance Division welcomes dancer and choreographer Maria Torres to a two-week residency to gather community history about the Hustle. The Hustle was a dance developed in the 70s discos first by Puerto Rican teens, but has since expanded across the U.S. Today, the Hustle scene in New York City is still particularly vibrant. While has extensive experience directing choreography in theater, film, and television, she got her start performing the Hustle in the Bronx as a…
Library for the Performing Arts - First Floor CafeAdults
Mon, May 15
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Ensemble Π performs new music based on text from books that were banned in the US, including Lenny Bruce, Toni Morrison, and Art Spiegelman.. REGISTER Ensemble Π is a socially conscious new music group founded in 2002. For the last 20years, Ensemble Π has presented a Peace Project – an annual multi-media event. Ensemble Π has championed the work of contemporary composers by premiering and commissioning works by li…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Wed, May 17
@ 1 PM
League of Professional Theatre Women: Oral History Project
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register Please note date change: This program was formerly scheduled for the evening of Thursday May 18th. The League of Professional Theatre Women speaks with actress Tamara Tunie. Tunie has a distinguished body of work that encompasses stage, television, and the silver-screen. She recently wrapped the role of Cissy Houston, mother of the great American icon, Whitney Houston, in the recent feature film, I Wanna Dan…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, May 18
@ 7 PM
Works & Process
Princess Lockerooo. Photo: Kate Singh In the 1970s, a dance form called waacking was born in the Black, gay underground clubs of Los Angeles. Tyrone Proctor and his friend Billy Goodson risked their lives to perform such an effeminate, expressive dance, when being openly gay subjected them to violence and prison. The dance was popularized on Soul Train and picked up by celebrities, then almost died out with the AIDS crisis. Preserving the legacy of waacking, recently Princess Lockerooo sa…
CaféAdults
Sat, May 20
@ 3:30 PM
16mm Film
REGISTER In 1981, Laurence Kardish programmed Of Light and Texture at the Museum of Modern Art, a dual exhibition of Andrew Noren and James Herbert’s films. Today, community curator Paul Attard will present a new screening of Cantico by Herbert and Imaginary Light by Noren, serving as a well-overdue survey of two seminal and long-neglected 16mm masters who, by their own choosing, have nearly vanished from the public’s consciousness since that exhibition. By 1989, Noren had withdrawn all…
Library for the Performing Arts - Third Floor Screening RoomAdults
Mon, May 22
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register William Henry "Chick" Webb was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader—the "Savoy King," who reigned at the Savoy Ballroom and helped launch the Swing Era of the 1930s. In Rhythm Man, the first full biography of Webb, jazz historian Stephanie Stein Crease explores Webb's engrossing life and times. The Library for the Performing Arts welcomes Crease in a discussion moderated by…
Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, May 25
@ 7 PM
Canceled
16mm Film
This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please note the changed start time, this was previously listed as 5:30pm, but will begin at 7:00pm. Come explore the zeitgeist of New York City as represented in the Reserve Film and Video Collection’s 16mm film holdings! This month we’ll be screening Maren and Reed Erskine’s 1983 documentary Hell’s Kitchen Chronicle. The film looks at the neighborhood's many-sided struggle to save itself from becoming a "disposable community"…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, May 31
@ 1 PM
David Vaughan's The Dance Historian Is In
This event will take place online via Zoom as well as in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register This event will take place online via Zoom as well as in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. In this episode of the Dance Historian Is In, dance writer Marina Harss showing rarities from the Baryshnikov collection, with a focus on his “Russian” period. She will show and discuss recordings from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division from his Soviet performances and from…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online
Adults
Thu, June 1
@ 6 PM
The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT), the first and foremost collection of videorecorded live theatre performances in the world, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibition at the Library for the Performing Arts. Janice C. Simpson, theatre journalist, critic, and professor, interviews Patrick Hoffman, director and curator of TOFT about the exhibition and the history of the archive over the years with exciting video excerpts from the exhibition and its vast collection to be incl…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Fri, June 2
@ 3 PM
Outdoor
Music lovers: come listen to music selected from the archives of the Library for the Performing Arts' collection! Sound Bites is a monthly outdoor listening event presented by the Music and Recorded Sound Division, on select Fridays on our terrace throughout the summer. Each event will feature staff or community DJs who will spin from the library's vast collection, and then talk about their digging process. In this iteration, we hear from DJ Ben Boogz who will play breakbeats.
OutdoorAdults
Mon, June 5
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register Noël Coward fellow Arianne Johnson Quinn will present her work to inventory the work of Noël Coward preserved in collections both here at the Library for the Performing Arts and around the world. The outcome of the fellowship will be a research guide publication of Coward holdings at the Library for the Performing Arts, digitization of significant holdings, a publication related to her research, and sh…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Tue, June 6
@ 1 PM
Online
This event is online only. 53rd Street Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on The Pretenders: Pretenders **How to Register: Please click HERE** We are offering a monthly music club (1PM & 5PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP Club!--an…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Tue, June 6
@ 5 PM
Online
This event is online only. 53rd Street Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on The Pretenders: Pretenders **How to Register: Please click HERE** We are offering a monthly music club (1PM & 5PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP Club!--an…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Thu, June 8
@ 8 PM
This event is sold out online, but guests are welcome to attend through the standby line. Reserved tickets will be released five minutes before the event. Register here! Based on the classic Noël Coward play of the same name, Hay Fever is a new musical about the bohemian Bliss family. Judith Bliss, once a famous stage actress, has retired to the country to live a simple life with her husband David and adult children Sorel and Simon. But the Blisses can’t stop performing—especially for a quarte…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Fri, June 9
@ 5 PM
Works & Process
Register here! At the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Reading is Fundamental. The Reading Rainbow Kiki Ball celebrates LGBTQIA+ Pride and honors the skills and style that have made ballroom the cultural force it is today while also honoring contemporary dancers of the form. Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington’s MasterZ at Work Dance Family kicks off the festivities performing Works & Process commissioned dances in the library’s Bruno Walter Auditorium. Immediately following…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Sat, June 10
@ 2:30 PM
Silent Clowns Film Series
Register here! Silent Clowns, New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase, examines one of the most endearing (not to mention enduring) comedy series ever, Our Gang, which ran theatrically from 1922 to 1944, and then started a whole new lease on life as The Little Rascals on television in the 1950s. The catalyst for the series was Ernie Morrison, a talented child comedian who’s the subject of this tribute program. A special guest Ina Archer, artist and media conservator…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults,

Children,

School Age (5-12 years),

College & Graduate Students,

Families,

Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years),

Young Adults/Pre GED (16-24 years)